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One of the greatest builders of the ancient world in the time of Jesus had a whole slew of projects, and probably none greater than the updating and augmenting of the Temple in Jerusalem. It was a massive overhaul and renovation of the Temple which was rebuilt about 500 years earlier, after the original built…

A few weeks ago, I watched a movie about a woman who suddenly was faced with a crisis. She had a successful career and a great marriage when she found out that her husband decided to divorce her. He had been having an affair for a number of years. He also got the house and…

I have a friend who is an agent in the Secret Service. So, one day we were talking and I asked him, “So, you guard the President?” And he said, “Yup. The president, diplomats, all of them.” And he began to tell me about his office job. He does the recruiting process, and every applicant…

A few weeks ago, a friend called me up. “I am going to a road race in your neighborhood tomorrow morning, do you want to run it?” After working out some of the details, I decided to say yes. I had never run a road race before in my life, and I was fresh off…

The other day I was running late on a weeknight and I hadn’t eaten much for dinner. I stopped by the local market on my home after getting off the bus, and I decided I would pick up one of the rotisserie chickens that they sell there, to make a dinner with. When I approached…

College. My family didn’t have all that much money, so I was happy when I got a good sized academic scholarship to go to a wealthy college in Pennsylvania. In the first days, while all the other kids had their parents driving them and moving them in, I arrived alone fresh out of tipping a…

When I entered a diocesan seminary some years ago, one of the first things you got was a poster. The poster has pictures of the seminarians, plus the bishop and vocation directors. These posters are given out to parishes and pastors put them up in parishes for everyone to see. Immediately, then, you become a…